Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu’s on information and strategy, Bayo Onanuga has said that Nigeria is still one of the safest places to live in the world. He stated this in an opinion piece he released saying that going by figures and data available, Nigeria is safer than South Africa and the United States…
About 3,000 members and supporters of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in Arochukwu local government area of Abia State, have defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC. The decampees include the executive committee members of the party in Arochukwu LGA, who were led into the fold of the Abia APC by the APGA State…
Residents of Minna, the Niger State capital, on Monday, protested high cost of living in the country, blocking major roads within the metropolis. The protesters including women and youths were heard chanting protest songs, while security agents including policemen looked on. The protesters said the rising cost of food items and poor government effort to…
The Federal Government said members of the National Youth Service Corps will no longer be posted to states deemed unsafe in the wake of worsening security conditions in the country. Several corps members have been abducted in some parts of the country during their one-year mandatory national service, raising fears about the sustainability of the…
The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party seems to have no end in sight as the party’s congress election in Edo State, on Sunday, generated uproar as nine out of the 11 PDP governorship aspirants boycotted the exercise. The Congress was conducted to pick delegates that will participate in the party’s February 22 governorship primary….
Nigeria faces darkness once again following the collapse of the nation’s electricity grid. The grid collapsed at 11:51 AM on Sunday, February 4, reducing the system’s capacity from 2,407 megawatts to a mere 31MW by noon and reaching zero by 1 PM. Despite the Federal Government privatising the sector over eleven years ago, the grid…
The former governor of Yobe State, Bukar Abba Ibrahim, died at the age of 73 on Sunday. He died in Saudi Arabia after a protracted illness Another source close to the family posted on his Facebook page, Sen. Bukar Abba Ibrahim has passed away just now in Makkah. May Allah grant him peaceful repose and…
The Ebonyi Government has decried the proliferation of illegal schools in the state with a warning to those behind the development to desist. Mr Peter Nwogbaga, Senior Special Assistant to Gov. Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi on Secondary Education, made this known in a statement in Ebonyi on Sunday. Nwogbaga was quoted to have said this…
Governor Alex Chioma Otti of Abia State has continued his promise of opening up roads in Abia State with the flag-off of construction of Okai Item – Akaeze rural road on Saturday. The governor stated that the 19.4km road is strategically pertinent to the socio-economic enhancement of the state as it shares boundary with Ebonyi…
As Imo celebrates 48 years of its creation, the governor, Hope Uzodimma, has expressed delight that the state is moving forward, as his administration is working tirelessly to fulfill all the promises made. Uzodimma spoke, yesterday, in his goodwill message he sent to the people of the state to mark the state’s new age. Exactly…
